A ';wonderful story of passion, commitment, resilience, and determination,' (Paul Gasol, former NBA All-Star) about one man's quest to become the first person to play each of America's 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face with the gulf between his impoverished childhood in the Jim Crow South and the successful executive he became.
After surviving a kidnapping and violent sexual assault, academic and entrepreneur Jenni Reavis packed one suitcase and left everything behind to embark on a 3-year radical adventure backpacking through 6 countries, where she finished her master's degree abroad and found a hidden path that led to forgiveness, joy, hundreds of talks with strangers under foreign stars, and an erotic, romantic relationship with her own self, living the life of her happiest dreams.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this funny and honest feel-good memoir, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad.
Shaunie Hendersonwife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wivesopens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded Black children in today's world, and reveals how to define your career and personal life by your own terms in this inspirational memoir.
In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time and discovers a brilliant and eccentric woman whose passionate search for success was balanced by an obsession with privacy.
William E Simon-quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, treasury secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic.
"Strafgefangener Achtundzwanzig" - als solcher musste Matthias Storck 14 Monate lang die bittere Realität als Gefangener des ehemaligen DDR-Staates ertragen.
Wenn ein Grieche seine Heimat mit ihrem strahlenden Licht, dem nach Thymian duftenden Wind und den wilden Bergen, umgeben von tiefblauem Meer verlässt, muss er einen triftigen Grund dafür haben.
A stunning collection of over 200 essential and influential album covers of the decadeA visual reflection of psychedelia-influenced artwork to Punk anti- design - from Pink Floyd to the Sex PistolsIndispensable purchase for the dedicated follower of music and artThe seventies are often regarded as a mean, dark and turbulent decade, full of discontent and pessimism.
Elisa von der Recke's 'Herzens-Geschichten einer baltischen Edelfrau' ist eine faszinierende Sammlung von Geschichten, die Einblicke in das Leben und die Emotionen einer adligen Dame des Baltikums bieten.
Die 20 Frauen, von denen Margitta Rosenbaum erzählt, haben eines gemeinsam: Alle befanden sich in einer schwierigen Situation, wo ihnen ein dicker "Stein" im Weg lag.
Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany.
Liebe ist ein Spektrum, keine SchubladeAufgewachsen in einer Welt zwischen Disney-Klischees und konservativen Geschlechteridentitäten, spürt Saskia Michalski früh, dass Saskia nicht den Erwartungen entspricht.
With the reputation as the hardest and most dangerous female criminal in Britain, Gypsy Jane Lee was feared and respected throughout London's criminal underworld.
'She'd done more to belittle, undermine and scar me, with her ten years of scorn and hatred, than Starling with his brutal physical batterings or any of the others with their attempts at forced sexual contact.
Leonora Messing war 15 Jahre alt, als sie aus ihrem Dorf in Sachsen-Anhalt verschwand und sich in Syrien dem Islamischen Staat anschloss, um Drittfrau eines deutschen IS-Terroristen zu werden.
